Also, I skimmed through the trial of the Magians to see how we could beef up our current WS. It looks like we get a 10% dmg boost to evisceration if we use the corresponding weapon. The weapon isn't that bad as an off hand option. It's similar to a blau dolch when it comes to dmg and delay. I think it's a little higher base dmg than Blau.

I can't remember and I already logged off. Anyways, I don't even want to know what SE was thinking when they made the new Weapon skills.

Well i tested it at 300TP with +30INT in gear/food +5 MaB from moldavite earring...did 415 even without the INT gear it does like 20 or 30 less? hope it has other modifier tehn INT and when it comes to MAB idk how much more MAB thf can get...

In the process of leveling up from 1-80 there will be a lot of weaponskills that are weaker than others. Viper bite is our bread and butter from 33-60 for the same reason (only because we stack SATA with it and it chains well). The mana stealing weaponskills aren't practical for damage and viper bite is better than cyclone. I doubt s-e is done with new weaponskills yet though. With 19 more levels to go we'll have approximately 100 more skill points to acquire. Judging by the dagger skill necessary to obtain past weaponskills there will probably be one or two more. But as a general rule of thumb we shouldn't ever expect too much from magical weaponskills. S-E makes them all the same way.

I will admit though that aeolian edge LOOKS cool. Even though the damage sucks it's kinda fun to throw one out if the mob is at very low HP and is about to die anyway (provided of course it won't hit something else with its AoE status).

Edited, Jun 28th 2010 8:52am by Melphina

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As to the NPC mentioning weaknesses, it seems like the Abyssea NMs that drop the job specific gear only do so when you exploit their weaknesses. However, our job specific item sucks, so I still see no reason to use this WS. Especially since you can't farm with AoE.

Back before people were high level, I used to do the rank 5? Mission with the skeletons and the lich with aoe ws. When everyone uses teem they do add up quick. Maybe when we hot 90 aoe ws and 3 dd will be the way to farm dynamis.